Northumberland Almshouses

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0930 NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE 680-1/15/263 (North side) 22/03/88 Northumberland Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE The Almshouses)

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Almshouses. 1884-87. By Smith & Brodrick. For the Hull Charity Trustees, (an amalgamation of 4 long-established charities), relocated on a new site. Red brick, roughcast and sham timber-framing, with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs, gabled and hipped. Brick ridge stacks. Glazing bar casement windows, mostly original. Domestic Tudor Revival style. The plan is conventional, with ranges of dwellings, mostly 2 storeys, around a grassed quadrangle. In the centre of the south side, the gatehouse and entrance tower, and opposite, the chapel. Single storey service ranges run northwards from the rear corners. The gatehouse has a Tudor arched carriage entrance with wrought-iron gates and a brick vaulted passage. Above, a stone oriel window. Behind this, a square clock tower with parapet. Steep pitched swept roof carried on a round-arched wooden arcade. On the right, a canted stair tower with a similar roof. Flanking the gatehouse to east and west, regular ranges of gabled dwellings, 8 bays. At each end of the range, an angled corner gable flanked by hexagonal turrets with swept roofs. Returns have nearly symmetrical ranges with 6 gables. Inside the quadrangle, the chapel on the north side has nave and chancel under a continuous roof with a bellcote, vestry and west porch. Perpendicular style windows. 3-light east window, 2 single light south windows. Nave has four 2-light windows to south, and 3 to north. West porch has a doorway with a window over it. INTERIOR has arch-braced roofs with wall shafts, and chancel arch with responds. Tiled reredos and stained-glass east window. Double arch on north side. Nave has 2 arched doorways and traceried ashlar pulpit. East of the chapel, a large gabled and hipped corner block, 2 and 3 storeys, 5 bays, on a grander scale than the other dwellings. Angled north-east corner and timber framed rear elevation. West of the chapel, a dwelling range, 4 bays, with a double hipped projecting centre. East and west sides of the quadrangle, 7 bays, are symmetrical, with a gabled central projection flanked by hipped wings. On the south side, the gatehouse is flanked by double gabled blocks, then a recessed bay, then a hipped block. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire East Riding: London: 1961-: 284).

Listing NGR: TA0960430314